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541.
by cafard 2y ago
When I was in Charlotte, North Carolina, some years ago (20?) I saw signs at certain intersections announcing how many dollars had been collected from red-light cameras there.
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by cafard 2y ago
>> everything breaks and is bugged In my Fortran IV class fifty years ago, and it was not unusual for the Burroughs mainframe to be down when one showed up with punch cards or showed up to punch them. Modern cars are vastly more relia
543.
by cafard 2y ago
Now if they could just grow and market tomatoes that taste like a tomato.
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by cafard 2y ago
A boss was an extrovert, not really a favorable example of one. My impression is that he started talking and hoped that it would all make sense in the end. A peer of his was quite introverted, and seemed to start talking only when he knew w
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by cafard 2y ago
I have been told nothing about the 'Chickenpox bomber'. This is the first time I encountered the term, and I think I'll quit while I'm ahead.
546.
by cafard 2y ago
I'm pretty sure I remember being thoroughly offended about 1980 when I found a pay phone that required 25 cents. I think that this was in the Denver area.
547.
by cafard 2y ago
Extrajudicial justice tends to be more extrajudicial than just. > literally burn down your house or business See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bom...
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by cafard 2y ago
I am reasonably confident that Oracle keeps its code under source control, but the PL/SQL packages it supplied start with a lot of this. The package WWV_FLOW, central to the APEX/ORDS product has more than 500 lines like --
549.
by cafard 2y ago
from https://www.vccs.edu/transfer-programs/ "Through system agreements, students who graduate from one of Virginia’s 23 community colleges with an associate degree and a minimum grade point average may obtain GUA
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by cafard 2y ago
Liddell and Scott give carpenter or builder as the primary meaning, with "tektosune" being the art of carpentry or building. "Techne", with a chi rather than a kappa, is the root word for technology.
551.
by cafard 2y ago
See also https://antietam.stonesentinels.com/monuments/individuals/wi...
552.
by cafard 2y ago
The modern Republican Party has a large contingent of rebadged Dixiecrats. As for Iowa, there had never been slavery in what we think of as the Midwest--north of the Ohio River and of Missouri. However, the Dred Scott decision put it into q
553.
by cafard 2y ago
Luther was a major force on the standardization of (school) German, wasn't he? It makes sense to me that his influence would have bypassed Yiddish. I take it to be mostly a variant of old regional German. I base this on transcriptions
554.
by cafard 2y ago
At some point back when, I had decided that our government contract needed its documentation in hypertext. I spent a few days putting some of it into the GNU Info format, and showed it to my boss. He said something like That's interest
555.
by cafard 2y ago
My two cents: Americans deeply distrust education. It is naturally hierarchical, which is to say not democratic. It is labor intensive, and resists efforts to make it capital intensive. But sports programs, and jobs programs we tolerate pre
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Frederick Crews has died(nytimes.com)
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557.
by cafard 2y ago
The curious thing is that Norman Mailer coined the term about 1970. Is drift accelerating, or do words so new lack the stability of the old?
558.
by cafard 2y ago
Considering how hypothetical all this discussion is, you seem to be overstating the matter.
559.
by cafard 2y ago
A cousin cut his wrist falling with a glass half-gallon milk bottle in hand. But in general I don't remember that much in the way of broken glass from my childhood, though pretty much everything bigger than a school-lunch milk carton w
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by cafard 2y ago
Some do go broke. We rely on New York Replacement Parts for cartridges for our bathroom faucets, the original manufacturer being long out of business. Double-glazed windows may get blurry over the years, I guess, and then one would replace
561.
by cafard 2y ago
I came here to say just that, but I think you have covered it.
562.
by cafard 2y ago
In this week's newspapers I saw that El Al is buying a number of them.
563.
by cafard 2y ago
Finding work though a "family network" would be nepotism. Finding work through a professional network is entirely another matter. If the professional network consists of golfing buddies, no, that would not be a good thing. If it c
564.
by cafard 2y ago
What year was this? I never encountered such a noise in my stock boy days, but I bet they were a lot earlier than yours (early to mid 1970s).
565.
by cafard 2y ago
It seems to me that years ago people would point out a stretch of dead trees killed by a mud flow from Mount Rainier.
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by cafard 2y ago
I would remark that the isolationist strain developed after WW I, and included a fair bit of the liberal intelligentsia, e.g. Charles Beard. The Library of America Reporting WW II cheats on this, and implies that isolationism was a fetish
567.
by cafard 2y ago
It seems to me that a deserter in the hands of the US military system was an asset that a) had undergone training, b) was on the action side of whatever ocean, c) must be made to understand that there were worse things than the front line.
568.
by cafard 2y ago
> This sentence scores as 'extremely difficult' or 'difficult' on most readability scores, and it's just unnecessarily flowery. It was written for the Paris Review subscribers of 1968. I imagine that they found l
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by cafard 2y ago
A quibble: A 1983 Webster's Collegiate gives the definition of problematic as "1: a. difficult to settle or decide b. not definite or settled c. open to question or debate 2: expressing or supporting a possibility". (Bold typ
570.
by cafard 2y ago
Tax collector? The tax was the (very unpopular) excise, and Burns wrote the poem "The Deil's Awa wi the Excise Man": https://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/node/id/420 . I suppose that the mode

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